Gave me a good laugh as well, good to see Matthew and Christer both have a good sense of humour.
Thanks for all the replies. I find the ultrasonic bath great for cleaning vapourizers etc., but if there are weaknesses or damage in the nickel...
[ATTACH] Hi everyone Somewhere under all of that rock-hard dirt and oxidization is nickel plating (actually the camera flash seems to make it...
Cheers Christer. Thanks for all the info Nils, believe it or not that's a rolled edge on the cap. One of the things I forgot to mention is that...
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One other question. I'm just about to screw the vapourizer into the fount minus the pricker rod assembly and a thought has occured. If I can get...
Thanks for that, Nils. I decided to keep the original bolts and tidy them up a bit, since they looked a bit chewed up after being forced out....
Similar to Neils 3rd variation but with an original glass. The glass is extremely thin. This lantern shows signs that it has had a lot of use (a...
Thanks for the info Nils Only the fount and base left to polish now, then I'll make the lead packing, photograph the parts and then put it back...
[ATTACH] I've just about dismantled the whole lantern now. Looking at pics of the early ones in the gallery there are some differences in the...
Many thanks for all the info. It's nice to know there's at least one left then, I'd better be careful with it. I started dismantling it today and...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hi everyone this is my first project for a few months now. From information in the gallery/ forums this is the very first...
Personally, if I saw one on ebay or whatever, I'd bid far more for one in this kind of original condition than a restored one. Even more so an...
Really good result at 200 C, looks pretty good as well bearing in mind how pitted the bail handle was.
Thanks Neil, I'll try that in the oven. Is it best to wait until the paint's dry first?
Just wondered what is the best paint to coat rusty bail handles and other metal-work with, once you've got the worst of the rust off? Cheers Trevor
I bet you could flog that on ebay, Ray !
[ATTACH] Been a bit slow with this one due to being busy, but here's a pic of it lit. First of all, I soaked the fuel guage in Neil's cocktail...
[ATTACH] Here's a pic of the air restrictor alongside that of a Radius 119. Though I don't have a Radius 119 (yet) it came with some Radius...
Many thanks for the replies. The lantern is for alcohol, in fact it's the one Karli posted pics of in the gallery. Incidentally, I remember being...
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